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0:03 You're listening to Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe of Torch in Houston, Texas. This is the Jewish Inspiration Podcast.
0:11 My dear friends, welcome back to day number 11 on page 41. In the Shar HaBitachon, the amazing teachings of the Jehovah Salavahos. The fifth and final worldly benefit of Bitachon. Yet another one of the benefits of Bitachon in regard to material matters is, Simchaso b'chol inyun sheye tak e'lov v'im yeke negativo.
0:39 That it enables a person to feel happy with every situation to which he is assigned by Hashem, even if that situation is at odds with his nature.
0:56 Because this happiness stems from the confidence that in every situation, Hashem will do for him only that which is best for him. Hashem will only do good for you. Do you understand that, David? Hashem will only do that which is good for you.
1:25 just as a loving mother does for her son by bathing him swaddling him with cloth to strengthen his newborn limbs and tightening and loosening the swaddle against his will
1:49 This attitude of complete trust in Hashem's loving care is in line with that of David, King David. May he rest in peace. I swear that I stilled and quieted my soul like a nursing infant at his mother's side. Like a nursing infant is my soul.
2:10 reliant on Hashem. Thus, the fifth worldly benefit of Bittachon is that it enables a person to be happy in any situation. I know that even though I feel a little tug over here, I feel a little tug, Hashem is swaddling me. Hashem is taking care of me, just like that little baby who's being swaddled.
2:28 It's like, oh, what are you doing to me? I'm doing what's best for you, even though you don't understand it. Okay? In conclusion, Having provided a sampling of the spiritual and material advantages of Bitochon, Chovas Alvovas closes the Pesichah by laying out the structure of Sha'ar Bitochon and describing the focus of each chapter.
2:51 He says,
3:07 That bitachon provides in regard to Torah matters and some that it provides with regard to worldly matters. This occurred to me while writing this work.
3:22 I'm going to share with you seven different things, seven different topics in these chapters, these coming chapters within this book. The first is, we're going to define what is Bitochon. That's chapter number one. Chapter number two.
3:43 The second chapter focuses on the criteria that would theoretically provide a basis for placing trust in human beings and show that no human being meets those criteria and only Hashem does. People keep on getting let down. I was let down by my partner. I recently had a story.
4:04 A guy came to my house. He was dealing with a partnership and partner needed him for something. He needed a partner for something. When the partner got what he wanted, he kicked him out.
4:15 He says, we're out. No more partnership. You're out. He says, what do I do?
4:20 Should I sue him? What should I do? So I said, see what you can do. To have a peaceful resolution.
4:29 Take a bow. Bend the knee. Don't burn a bridge. Don't burn a friendship.
4:37 He's taking money from me. He's not taking anything from you. Hashem is the one who gives. Hashem is the one who takes.
4:45 You think he's the one taking? Hashem has a different plan for you, my friend. Do what you can to keep it peaceful. Because you know what distances God?
4:55 A quarrel. A fight. You're fighting with him? Hashem says, I want nothing to do with this.
5:00 You go fight it on your own. And then what happens? I've seen this happen with inheritance. I had someone call me to his office.
5:05 He says, the whole family dealing with a fortune of money. They're all fighting about the inheritance. I tried to reason with them. I tried to reason with them and tell them, guys, it's not worth it.
5:17 You're going to make the lawyers rich. David, no offense here. No offense, David. David's a lawyer.
5:24 No offense. He said, you're going to make the lawyers rich. You're going to come out with nothing. No. She's not going to get that.
5:32 I'm going to get this and this and that. They're all fighting. Okay. So go to court.
5:39 Have a good time. Make those lawyers wealthy. And that's what happened. They came out with nothing at the end except losing relationships, losing siblings, and nobody came out with money at the end.
5:52 The lawyers got everything. They spent and they fought again and they fought in this court and that court and appeals court. There was nothing left. I'm not kidding.
6:01 They wasted everything. For what? Sit down and say, you know what? We're going to work this out peacefully, harmoniously.
6:08 You want a little bit more, take a little bit more. It's not worth losing a brother and sister. It's not worth losing a relationship. It's not worth creating a barrier between us and God.
6:21 The Talmud, we mentioned this last week in our Talmud class. The Talmud concludes at the end of the Talmud, God doesn't have. A vessel for blessing other than peace. If there isn't peace, there's no blessing.
6:40 Oh, but he cheated me. Stop with it. Okay? If Hashem is the one, and I've mentioned the story of, I told this also to that guy who came to my office. I said to him, you can fight.
6:54 You may even win. But you're going to lose. Ultimately, you're going to lose. I said, you know what?
7:00 Figure out how you can just come up with a compromise. Walk away. Walk away. Hold your head up high.
7:07 Hashem will take care of you. You're not going to get a penny more or a penny less. I promise. It's a guarantee.
7:14 You're not going to get a penny more, a penny less. Okay. Number three, Vashlishi, the third chapter. Excuse me. I'll just tell you the quick story.
7:23 My wife sold a business many years ago. We worked on a business. We sold it out of our garage. It was like a little mama pop shop or what they call it, right?
7:34 Mama pop shop. And eventually it was too big for her to handle. It was like with babies and it was a lot of schlepping, a lot of boxes. And we sold the business and everyone told us, Make sure you have a lawyer document and everything should be legal and everything should be no problem.
7:50 We did it. And sure enough, the people who bought the business were not honest. And they sold off all the merchandise. They took the computer systems and everything and ran.
8:01 And we lost a lot of money.
8:03 And my wife's like, but we have this lawyer document. We
8:08 can take him to court. And what's going to happen? And what's going to be then? Well, what's going to happen?
8:13 I said, you know what we can do? We can either fight or we can turn to Hashem and say, Hashem, it's in your hands. And a miracle happened the next week after my wife chose not to fight, chose not to take them to court, chose not to go through the mud. A friend from New York called and said, we have a business we've been doing in several states.
8:33 I just don't have an office in Houston. I want to start something in Texas. Can you open up the bank account? You open up the LLC.
8:40 It'll be under your name. The money that comes in, you keep 10%. He says, when we open up our office, we'll take it over. Within less than a year, we got all of the money we would have made in that sale.
8:54 And as soon as that money came in, including the taxes we would have had to pay, He called up and says, our Texas office is ready. Thank you so much for your help. And that was it. I did the calculation of exactly how much came in.
9:08 Exactly! How much the sale would have gone through in the sale, we would have made that money would have taken us three, four years to make it. Everything came in in much shorter period of time. Hashem closed that door.
9:20 He says, I have a much better door for you. Oh, but that person cheated me. Just leave him alone. He didn't cheat you anything.
9:27 It's okay. Hashem closed the door for you because he wanted to open up a new door for you. If you make a fight, you block the door, you block the entrance. Okay, the third chapter is focused on The third chapter is focused on clarifying the principles that oblige a person to place his reliance on Hashem.
9:57 as well as clarifying the obligation to engage in some means of earning a livelihood, despite the fact that one relies on Hashem to provide for him. The fourth chapter, clarifying the various areas to which Bitochon applies, and the distinction between appropriate, commendable Bitochon, reliance on Hashem, and the inappropriate, deplorable Bitochon in those areas,
10:39 He says the fifth chapter focuses on the contrast between the one who trusts in Hashem engages in the meaning of earning a livelihood and the way one who does not trust in Hashem engages in them. The difference between the two. The sixth chapter discusses various refutations of the attitude of those who say that in order to devote themselves to Hashem's service, they must first amass the fortune to guarantee them the pleasures of this world for the long term.
11:28 And they hope to undertake the service of Hashem once they've attained their goals of financial security. When I have financial security, when I have my child's 591, is that the college fund? Yeah? What's the college fund called? What's that called?
11:45 Either way, when I have that, then I'll have children. When I have that money put away, then I'll go to synagogue. Then, when, when, when, when? will never come about.
11:59 These people are what we call solicitors of security deposits from Hashem. And the final chapter is about is about things that detract from one's ability to attain complete Bitochan and Hashem. And it includes everything else that needs to be said on the topic Bitochon with the brief synopsis of the 10 levels of Bitochon. That concludes the introduction, and God willing, next week, we'll resume with chapter number one of Yishar HaBitochon.
12:39 My dear friends, this concludes tonight's class. Thank you so much. This concludes day number 11. Have a terrific evening, everybody.
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